Preliminary site plan unveiled for new Veterans Affairs hospital

4:14 PM,
Nov. 15, 2012

VA campus site plan

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The preliminary site plan for the new Robley Rex Veterans Affairs Medical Center off Brownsboro Road calls for three hospital towers and two parking garages, as well as a new regional office for the Department of Veterans Affairs' service operations.

There is ample room on the 34.5-acre site, which is along the Watterson Expressway, for the VA hospital's and regional office's existing operations and any needed expansion, master planners say.

The site, which is intended to replace the old VA facility off Zorn Avenue, was purchased for $12.9 million from Blue Equity LLC in July after a review ...